Strange times in Buenos Aires
Greetings Everyone,
This week I've been shopping for a new refrigerator for the house, which had me returning to the same retail stores several days in a row.
On Thursday in both Easy and Coto there was an observable increase in customers buying large ticket items, most notably flat screen TVs as consumers were presumably taking advantage of the peso collapse by cashing in their dollars at the new rates and going on a buying spree.
On Friday, Easy had posted new signs on every appliance in their store advising consumers that the appliances on the showroom floor were the last of such items to be sold, and indeed consumers were buying the display items off the shelf as I watched, with approximately 25% of the displays having already been sold.
Also on Friday, I went back to Coto Abasto to actually buy the refrigerator I had selected, but the line waiting for service at the appliance desk was several dozen customers in length, so I left for the day.
On Saturday, I returned to Coto Abasto at noon to discover that overnight Coto had raised all the prices of all their appliances by approximately 10% across the board. Fuckers! So where are Christina's Price Police now, as I am witnessing an obvious case of [U]actual[/U] profiteering and price gouging.
Anyway, I am returning to Coto this afternoon, but this time to stock up on canned goods and bottled water.
As a related issue, I was amused to read this quote from a FT blogger...
"[I]I don't even consider Argentina a real country - it's rather a mafia organisation with a flag, a national anthem and a soccer team.[/I]"
Thanks,
Jax
Never Offer Dollars for Pussy
[QUOTE=MyPervIdentity;437811]The BBC article said that the "unofficial rate" is 13:1. With the currency in freefall, maybe we should offer to pay the girls in US dollars?[/QUOTE]Never ever offer to pay a girl in anything but Pesos. If you need an explanation, you are lost and understand little or nothing about the Argentine mentality.
Tres3.